Frankenstein, Or, The Modern PrometheusFrankenstein or The Modern Prometheus, was completed by Mary Shelley at the age of 19. She infused this original novel with Gothic and Romantic elements. Scientist Victor Frankenstein creates a large and powerful creature in the likeness of man, but is disgusted by his own creation and he abandons the being to fend for itself. Spawning generations of horror stories in the genre, Frankenstein is a gruesome warning against playing God and attempting the engineering of life. |
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Page 111
... sounds rung in my ears , and on all sides various scents saluted me : the only object that I could distinguish was the bright moon ... sound , which often saluted my 1 The moon . ears , proceeded from the throats of the little winged III.
... sounds rung in my ears , and on all sides various scents saluted me : the only object that I could distinguish was the bright moon ... sound , which often saluted my 1 The moon . ears , proceeded from the throats of the little winged III.
Page 123
... sounds when he read as when he talked . I conjectured , therefore , that he found on the paper signs for speech which he understood , and I ardently longed to comprehend these also ; but how was that possible , when I did not even ...
... sounds when he read as when he talked . I conjectured , therefore , that he found on the paper signs for speech which he understood , and I ardently longed to comprehend these also ; but how was that possible , when I did not even ...
Page 190
... sound of voices , as the fishermen called to one another . I felt the silence , although I was hardly conscious of its extreme pro- fundity , until my ear was suddenly arrested by the paddling of oars near the shore , and a person ...
... sound of voices , as the fishermen called to one another . I felt the silence , although I was hardly conscious of its extreme pro- fundity , until my ear was suddenly arrested by the paddling of oars near the shore , and a person ...
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